From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms ...

A Frankenstein's lab for growing 'spare' human bodies sounds like something ripped straight from an episode of Black Mirror. But scientists really want to make this gruesome concept a reality. In an ...

For most of the past six million years, the human story played out in shifting woodlands, open plains and coastal zones ...

Alcor Life Extension Foundation is freezing human bodies and brains at ultralow temperatures in hopes future medical ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees human immortality. He predicts artificial intelligence will match human intelligence by 2029.

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Artificial wombs, devices that can gestate human embryos outside the body, have shifted from speculative fiction to the brink ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Andy Yeh develops artificial proteins in his lab. Cortisol is a crucial hormone that regulates many important bodily functions like blood pressure and ...

The business of babymaking is about to be re-invented yet again. This won’t be the first time technology has permanently modified the ways babies are conceived and gestated, but it certainly heralds a ...